Unlearning, what is it and why is it so important?

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Explained in a simple and superficial way, we could say that unlearning is a way of keeping your knowledge up to date, of banishing those skills that are no longer useful and making room for the new skills required.

However, to be honest, we have to admit that this is a process that goes beyond merely “cleaning” our mind, as it requires activating certain internal “mechanisms” and, in truth, it is not easy.

Stay tuned to learn more about this change management process and find out how to put it into practice.

Learn to unlearn
While the RAE defines “unlearning” as the lebanon phone data action of forgetting something that has been learned, in psychology this phenomenon is known as the conscious effort to abandon known patterns, convictions and the intellectual comfort zone to open up to new ways of doing things.

In other words, it is about banishing the “this is how I do it” and embracing the possibility that there are other ways to achieve the same, or better, results.

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Why is it important to learn to unlearn?
Opening our minds and seeking other answers is key to making progress. It sounds like a cheap guru theory, but imagine for a moment that no one had thought of designing another way of plowing a field or performing an appendix removal operation (blessed laparoscopy).

Changes and improvements of any kind and in any of the existing areas (personal, professional, social, etc.) require a turning point in which the existing protocol is questioned and a way to modify it is sought.

As you may have noticed, it is not only people who can unlearn, but also organizations must do so from time to time to ensure that the working method they use is the most appropriate one.